Volume 6 - Chapter 45 – The Day of Departure (1/2)
06-45 The Day of Departure
Early spring, 18th of March. The disorder in Egelia Kingdom’s royal castle has settled.
“Jin, you’ll come back, right? Next time you can teach me how to build golems without hurrying!”
The third Prince Ernest said.
“Jin, I want to see you again later. At that time I want to show you Beana cradling a cute baby in her arms.”
Earl Kuzuma said.
“Jin…It’s a trite thing but I can’t say anything else…Thanks for everything. I’ll never never forget these few days. Nor about the visit to Kunlun Island.”
Beana said.
In addition there were great many people like maids who were reluctant to part and a castle sentinel who was looking worshippingly at Reiko.
He and the maids saw Jin’s group off at nine in the morning, and the group departed from the capital Asunto.
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“King, was it really alright to let them go?”
The Prime Minister, who was between the thrones, said.
“That person is dangerous. His technology, knowledge, abilities, and that Automata following him. Any one of those would be a great threat by itself.”
“We know. But you know, that Jin fellow didn’t seem to have any ambitions. Ernest took to him too.”
“Even so…!”
“If We would imprudently antagonize him and he turned against us, what then? Couldn’t that Automata called Reiko take on all of Our soldiers by herself?”
The King said, and looked up at the ceiling,
“As that’s the case, wouldn’t there be many more benefits to just treating him as amicably as possible?”
“…”
Withdrawing from between the thrones,
“Naive.”
The Prime Minister muttered.
“There’s no such guarantee that he won’t turn against us. And to say nothing of the possibility of him getting abducted by the enemy and made their subordinate. Even though it’s late now, I should dispatch someone…”
At that moment a man called out to him.
“Prime Minister, is something wrong?”
It was the Minister of Magic, Kelhidore. The Prime Minister then told Kelhidore of his worries and,
“Hmm, Prime Minister, in the grand scheme of things I agree with you. Not long ago someone came to report to me, and it seems like that Jin possesses outrageous Magic Energy. You see, he converted all of the destroyed and scrapped golems into materials all at once.”
The other day, Jin turned the scrap into materials with the [Fusion] magic. He said he had used an Elradrite, but even with that without supplying Magic Energy there would be no effect.
For example, a transistor amplifies the power of an electric signal, but it needs an adequate power source. Never does it produce something from nothing.
Elradrite is the same. Without a Magi Crystal working as a base supply of Magic Energy, things like casting amplified magic cannot be done.
As the operation procedures of Elradrite are state secrets, Jin who had no such knowledge didn’t realize it. Of course, neither did Stearina.
There was also a motive like this behind not informing anyone of how just Elradrite couldn’t amplify Magic Energy.
“But personally, I dare say he’s someone I’d like to get along with.”
As even the Minister of Magic evaluated Jin so highly, the Prime Minister Marquis Boyd North Galueri said,
“Hmm, even so, there’s no way we can just not do anything. For now, let’s at least have him monitored.”
And that being the case, he gave orders to a subordinate.
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“Oooh, it really is very comfortable, this carriage.”
“Mm. From now on I want to only ride in this one.”
Elsa seemed to be extremely pleased, and was sitting in the seat next to Jin as if it was only natural.
“I can certainly see why the Prince would want this.”
That’s right, yesterday, that is on the 17th of March, it had taken Jin the whole day to build Prince Ernest a private carriage of his own, and in addition teach the Guild about the structure of and how to utilize and install golem arms to carriages as suspension devices.
Of course, even though it was called the Prince’s private carriage, it didn’t have an air-conditioner. The horse golems were limited to ten percent output, it was an inferior version of Jin’s carriage.
Regardless, the manager of the materials had turned ghastly pale and had looked pitiful.
It was the same with the structure taught to the Guild.
Even so, with regards to carriages it was innovative, and may perhaps become mainstream from now on.
“Moreover, autonomous-type horse golems, huh. They’re great.”
Now after leaving the capital and sightings of people becoming more rare, Reiko had also returned into the cabin, and the horse golems were pulling the carriage independently.
Leaving the capital, for a while the scenery looked rural, but carrying on gradually the houses became more sparse.
And then, they could see a row of red poles, after which not a single silhouette of a house could be seen. Not even a single shack.
Although the environment didn’t seem particularly bad, there being grass-covered plains and forests.
“This area north of Asunto belongs to the royal family.”
Reinhardt explained.
“There were red poles, right? Starting from there, precious medicinal plants and unusual flowers grow, so I’ve heard there’s various limitations imposed.”
In other words, it’s a nature preserve.
“Can people enter?”
Jin asked and,
“Individuals can without a problem. Even if the intention is gathering medicinal plants, it’s allowed for private people.”
It seems gathering them would fine as long as you didn’t take too much.
“However, cultivating the land or grazing on it is forbidden.”
If it was a nature preserve then that was obvious.
“So living there is forbidden too.”
That’s why there weren’t any people.
The carriage moved while they were looking a looking scenery that had been kept natural.
Then near noon, they could once again see red poles.
“Oh, we’re finally leaving the reserve.”
Reinhardt said.
“It’s going to be noon soon, let’s find some good place to have lunch in.”
Normally there’d be a village or a town nearby, but because of the preserve they were surrounded only by nature.
“To tell you the truth, this course isn’t the main road. On the main road there’s lodgings at intervals.”
Reinhardt spoke.
“So, why?”
Jin asked the natural question and the one who answered was Elsa.
“Jin-kun. You’ll understand once we go on a bit longer.”
“?”
For now as Elsa said so, Jin put off hearing the answer for later, and had the carriage travel a bit longer.
After ten minutes had passed and the field of view grew wider, a vivid purplish red filled Jin’s eyes.